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PL1:
If you find good 25 pin cables and want to avoid crimping and soldering, you can approach it like this.

Add 3 nylon loop clamps for strain relief (tight zig-zag pattern) near where you cut the cable in half.

Use euro-style terminal blocks to connect wires.


Use pre-crimped wires (cut to length and strip) and daisy chains from Paradise.

Add a few more loop clamps and zip ties for cable management.   :cheers:


Scott

severdhed:
I hate to burst your bubble, but unless x arcade changed their encoders since I bought mine, they don't use a common ground. They divided the inputs into groups of 4...each group with its own ground. These grounds are not interchangeable, which means you will need allot more wires. (5 wires for every 4 switches)  so that 25 pin cable will  only get you 20 inputs.



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michelevit:
Encoders are so cheap now, why not just have an encoder board in each control panel? Simple USB connection. Done and Done.

georgeb:

--- Quote from: severdhed on August 20, 2013, 12:10:53 pm ---I hate to burst your bubble, but unless x arcade changed their encoders since I bought mine, they don't use a common ground. They divided the inputs into groups of 4...each group with its own ground. These grounds are not interchangeable, which means you will need allot more wires. (5 wires for every 4 switches)  so that 25 pin cable will  only get you 20 inputs.

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I just checked and you are correct that there is a ground for each group of 4. Are you sure I can't use a common ground? I'm out of my depth with that question. Perhaps I will use dual d25's for panels with more than 20 inputs. Or perhaps look into getting an IPAC and can then use a common ground. I'm a couple of weeks away from installing any controls in the panel so have some time to consider my options.


--- Quote from: michelevit on August 20, 2013, 08:00:06 pm ---Encoders are so cheap now, why not just have an encoder board in each control panel? Simple USB connection. Done and Done.

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I would like to do that but I was looking at the cheapest option plus I want to have some common buttons on the cabinet which will be permanently wired to the encoder. If I purchased an IPAC is there any issues with it being connected at the same time as the X arcade encoder?

severdhed:
the x-arcade ground situation sucks..and you cannot use a common ground, i've tried it.  what happens is this:

you have two groups of buttons: 1, 2, 3 and 4, with Ground A....and buttons 5, 6, 7 and 8 with Ground B.  if you connect ground B to button 1, it will function as button 5.  it makes for a horrible mess when trying to wire everything up because you have so many extra grounds to worry about.

an Ipac or keywiz both use common grounds and are much easier to work with.  i prefer the ipac over the keywiz (having owned both) because it retains its programming when turned off.  Not an issue if you use the default program set, but i dont like using shift and alt for my buttons as they sometimes cause undesired side effects when pressed with other keys..so i reprogram mine.  i'd ditch the x-arcade for this project and use an ipac. 


If you want to use the x-arcade for the admin buttons that stay in the cabinet, you should not have any issues using both at the same time, as long as you reprogram one of them so that they aren't mapped to the same keys. another option is to hack a cheap usb gamepad for the admin buttons, and use an ipac for everything else.

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